A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.

God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor.

There is one mind common to all individual men

Postpone not your life.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.